Commune vs Compound - What's the difference?
commune | compound |
A small community, often rural, whose members share in the ownership of property, and in the division of labour; the members of such a community.
A local political division in many European countries.
(obsolete) The commonalty; the common people.
(obsolete) communion; sympathetic intercourse or conversation between friends
* Tennyson
To converse together with sympathy and confidence; to interchange sentiments or feelings; to take counsel.
* Shakespeare
To communicate (with) spiritually; to be together (with); to contemplate or absorb.
To receive the communion.
* Bishop Burnet
an enclosure within which workers, prisoners, or soldiers are confined
a group of buildings situated close together, e.g. for a school or block of offices
composed of elements; not simple
* I. Watts
(music) An octave higher than originally (i.e. a compound major second is equivalent to a major ninth).
Anything made by combining several things.
(chemistry, dated) A substance made from any combination elements.
(chemistry) A substance formed by chemical union of two or more ingredients in definite proportions by weight.
(linguistics) A lexeme that consists of more than one stem; compound word; for example (laptop), formed from (lap) and (top).
To form (a resulting mixture) by combining different elements, ingredients, or parts.
* Sir Walter Scott
To assemble (ingredients) into a whole; to combine, mix, or unite.
* Addison
To modify or change by combination with some other thing or part; to mingle with something else.
* Shakespeare
(legal) To settle by agreeing on less than the claim, or on different terms than those stipulated.
To settle amicably; to adjust by agreement; to compromise.
* Shakespeare
To come to terms of agreement; to agree; to settle by a compromise; usually followed by with'' before the person participating, and ''for before the thing compounded or the consideration.
* Shakespeare
* Clarendon
* R. Carew
* Hudibras
(obsolete) To compose; to constitute.
* Shakespeare
To worsen a situation or thing state
* New Family Structure Study
As nouns the difference between compound and commune
is that compound is an enclosure within which workers, prisoners, or soldiers are confined while commune is a small community, often rural, whose members share in the ownership of property, and in the division of labour; the members of such a community.As verbs the difference between compound and commune
is that compound is to form (a resulting mixture) by combining different elements, ingredients, or parts while commune is to converse together with sympathy and confidence; to interchange sentiments or feelings; to take counsel.As an adjective compound
is composed of elements; not simple.commune
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) commune, in turn deriving from Latin.Noun
(wikipedia commune) (en noun)- (Chaucer)
- For days of happy commune dead.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Verb
(commun)- I would commune with you of such things / That want no ear but yours.
- He spent a week in the backcountry, communing with nature.
- To commune under both kinds.
compound
English
(wikipedia compound)Etymology 1
Possibly from (etyl) kampong, .Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* gaol/jail, pen, pound, prisonEtymology 2
From (etyl) compounen, from (etyl) componre, .Adjective
(-)- a compound word
- Compound substances are made up of two or more simple substances.
Synonyms
* (composed of elements) compositeAntonyms
* (composed of elements) simpleDerived terms
* compound chocolate * compound interestNoun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (anything made by combining several things) amalgam, blend, combination, composite, mix, mixture * (word) compound wordHyponyms
* (word) closed compound * (word) hyphenated compound * (word) open compoundVerb
(en verb)- to compound a medicine
- incapacitating him from successfully compounding a tale of this sort
- We have the power of altering and compounding those images into all the varieties of picture.
- Only compound me with forgotten dust.
- to compound a debt
- I pray, my lords, let me compound this strife.
- Here's a fellow will help you to-morrow; compound with him by the year.
- They were at last glad to compound for his bare commitment to the Tower.
- Cornwall compounded to furnish ten oxen after Michaelmas for thirty pounds.
- Compound for sins they are inclined to / By damning those they have no mind to.
- his pomp and all what state compounds
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